Year 11: Preliminary Course Preliminary
3 focus areas · 120 hrsHow interactive media communicates: UX and UI design, digitising and compressing media, design thinking for a front-end system and interactive data journalism.
Social networks, cloud services, network architecture, IoT protocols and network security, then design, configure and optimise a network of your own.
Privacy and trust, how breaches happen, the threats an enterprise faces, risk matrices and the laws that protect data.
Year 12: HSC Course HSC
4 focus areas · 120 hrsData types and sampling, big data and data warehousing, ethical data use, then spreadsheets, dashboards and relational databases.
Why we visualise data, OLAP and data integrity, bias, designing for the user experience, and building a visualisation of your own.
Decision support and expert systems, inference engines, intelligent agents, IoT and AI, then build rules and a knowledge base.
Identify, plan, build and evaluate an enterprise system: tools, development approaches, implementation planning, testing and evaluation.
Resources Guides
5 pagesData flow diagrams, flowcharts, spreadsheets, SQL and design tools, step by step.
Approaches, Gantt charts and implementation planning for your project.
A worked project from problem to evaluation, with a live dashboard.
Every syllabus keyword, defined with an example.
The official NESA syllabus, specifications and marking guidelines.
Course at a glance
22 outcomes · 240 hrs- Data Science30 hrs
- Data Visualisation30 hrs
- Intelligent Systems30 hrs
- Enterprise Project30 hrs
Course outcomesEC-11-01 to EC-12-11
Year 11 · Preliminary
- EC-11-01
- Describes how systems are used in a range of enterprises
- EC-11-02
- Describes the function of data and information within enterprise computing systems
- EC-11-03
- Describes how data is safely and securely collected, stored and manipulated when developing enterprise computing systems
- EC-11-04
- Describes how data is used in enterprise computing systems
- EC-11-05
- Applies tools and resources to analyse datasets
- EC-11-06
- Explains how innovative technologies have influenced enterprise computing systems
- EC-11-07
- Explores the social, ethical and legal implications of the application of enterprise computing systems on the individual, society and the environment
- EC-11-08
- Selects and uses tools and resources to design and develop an enterprise computing system
- EC-11-09
- Documents the management and evaluates the development of an enterprise solution
- EC-11-10
- Investigates the effectiveness of an enterprise computing system
- EC-11-11
- Communicates an enterprise computing solution to an intended audience
Year 12 · HSC
- EC-12-01
- Explains how systems meet the needs of a range of enterprises
- EC-12-02
- Explains the function of data and information within enterprise computing systems
- EC-12-03
- Explains and evaluates how data is safely and securely collected, stored and manipulated when developing enterprise computing systems
- EC-12-04
- Explains how data is used in enterprise computing systems
- EC-12-05
- Applies tools and resources to analyse complex datasets
- EC-12-06
- Analyses how innovative technologies have influenced enterprise computing systems
- EC-12-07
- Explains the social, ethical and legal implications of the application of enterprise computing systems on the individual, society and the environment
- EC-12-08
- Justifies the selection and use of tools and resources to design and develop an enterprise computing system
- EC-12-09
- Selects and applies methods to record the management and evaluate the development of an enterprise computing system
- EC-12-10
- Evaluates the effectiveness of an enterprise computing system
- EC-12-11
- Communicates an enterprise computing solution to a specific audience